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balmy december
BowEd:
It'll eventually get closer to wintertime temps here later into january/february.Single digits at night and teens in the day.Once a body gets used to the cold it's easier to live with at least for me.
One good thing at least for Robin anyway about -10 F. or more temps is that it sets those wood ticks back a bit.I hav'nt skinned a deer here in the fall and winter with an excessive amount of ticks or any at all yet.
I've heard of some complaints about that in states where it stays warmer throughout the winter.
Been passing on a few deer here.Eventually I'll take the smoke pole shot.Good thing about using a gun is that you don't need as much room to shoot.Made a natural blind in a large brush pile in a small wash made up of osage limbs scrapped out from harvesting posts along a fence line.Nice blind in that it never rots away and can be used for years and years.
Don W:
It's been on the warm side here but nothing extreme. It rained all Xmas day but hovered slightly above freezing. Had it been snow, it would have been some work!
I didn't hunt the late season. My freezer is full and I spend the time cutting some firewood for the neighbors that let hint Thier farm.
I do remember warmer hunting seasons. This one seems warmer, but cold enough to feel like winter.
BowEd:
I got this muzzle loader tag in case I did'nt fullfill my tags with the self bow.As luck would have it I did fill my 3 bow tags with 200 pounds of deer meat.An extra 50 to 60 pounds won't hurt.We will eat it and I know an elderly couple that would like a good 15-20 pounds of smoked summer sausge too.
We have to have 2 larger freezers and can goods/dehydrated items in the cupboards to sustain throughout the year.A 14 cubic foot chest and a 5 cubic foot chest one.Plus the freezer compartment in the frig.All the food with no artificial preservatives/flavorings or processing with chemicals.I believe many people are sick because they don't have a good gut.
It blew pretty hard yesterday sitting.Had a big old gobbler come to within 5 yards of my brush blind down wind yesterday evening.I don't like firing a gun off in a future deer hunting site.They can't seem to smell like deer can...ha ha.Could of whacked him with a stick.If he does that again which I doubt,after I fill the muzzle loader deer tag he'll be in the freezer too.His season runs till the 10th of january.
BowEd:
All in all I love living in Iowa and it's 4 seasons with temperatures ranging from-30 F air tenp. to 100 F.There's a challenge to every season.Old man winter has blew in at the moment with a gift of 10" of snow/0 F. air temp.and 30 mph winds which puts wind chill factors down to -30 F.
Morgan:
We didn’t get the snow, but went from near 80 during Christmas to single digits last couple nights with wind chills in the sub zero range. Little bit of ice and snow but just a very little. Hard to acclimate when it bounces around like that.
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